Company
Date Published
Author
Chirag Parihar
Word count
997
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Harness developed an innovative and scalable tooltip framework that allows the documentation team to manage tooltips independently, reducing developer involvement and enhancing user experience. This framework was necessary to address the challenges faced by UI engineers in maintaining tooltips across multiple products with numerous forms. The solution involves giving the documentation team a separate repository to manage tooltip content, which is mapped to unique DOM nodes using a "data-tooltip-id" attribute. A Tooltip Editor was created to facilitate the documentation team's management of tooltip content, allowing them to easily add and edit content in markdown format. Once updated, the content is stored in a YAML format, merged into a dictionary, and then published as an npm package. This package is integrated into the main repository using React's context feature to render tooltips efficiently. The framework has already facilitated the implementation of approximately 1.5K tooltips and exemplifies Harness's commitment to building innovative, in-house solutions to enhance their UI.